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domestic animals. The lines he laid out were tree and straight, and the curves regular. The work he did endured.
If there was any physical requirement of country life which he could not perform, I do not know what it was. From watching him and assisting him, I gained an intimate knowledge of all this kind of work:
It seems impossible that any man could adequately describe his mother. I can not describe mine.
On the side of her father, Hiram Dunlap Moor, she was Scotch with a mixture of Welsh and English. Her mother, Abigail (Franklin) Moor, was chiefly of the old New England stock. She bore the name of two Empresses, Victoria Josephine. She was of a very light and fair complexion with a rich growth of brown hair that had a glint of gold in it. Her hands and features were regular and finely modeled. The older people always told me how beautiful she was in her youth.
She was practically an invalid ever after I could remember her, but used what strength she had in lavish care upon me and my sister, who was three
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